FUTURISTIC RETRO CHAMPIONS were originally an Edinburgh Art School (ECA) band and then they moved to Glasgow, whereupon they upped their gigging and recording schedule and started getting noticed by people outside Scotland, including Radio 1 DJ Kissy Sell Out. At the time of writing, their future remains uncertain, as there was some talk of the band splitting up and playing farewell gigs in Edinburgh and Glasgow, in Spring 2011.
Here’s how they described themselves when they played Limbo back in January 2008:
2 keyboards, 1 guitar, a bass, a drum machine, a trumpet and Sita… fighting.
Diminutive keyboardist Carla ‘The Hitman’ Easton began writing songs at the age of 4, penning early classics such as “Just ‘cos I wanna be cool, yeah yeah, baby baby baby” before she had hit the big ONE ZERO. She recruited 5 willing and able volunteers through various methods including bribery, international espionage and telekinetic control. Those 5 were… ‘Sexual Chocolate’ Sita Pieraccini, an Oscar winning actress with such credits as Police Academy and House of 1000 Corpses to her name… ‘Macho Man’ Harry Weeks, who gained notoriety around the public toilets of Edinburgh for loitering underneath ‘No Loitering’ signs… ‘Rainbow-Haired Warrior’ Dan O’Neill, who finished 4th on the first series of Britain’s Got Talent with his ventriloquist act… ‘The American Dream’ Adam Scott, who is in fact 2-dimensional and only visible from certain angles… And ‘The Dirtiest Player in the Game’ Ceal Stamp, editor of popular gossip mag ‘Heat’. They are all Aquarians apart from Dan who doesn’t have a star sign.
